The isolated Greek island of Antikythera, lying at the edge of the Aegean Sea between Crete and the Peloponnese, reminds one ...

THE mystery deepens around the famous shipwreck that held the 2,000-year-old relic dubbed the “world’s first computer”. The Antikythera wreck sank in the first century BC off the ...

A graceful bronze arm that was once attached to a statue dating to the first century was recently recovered from a famed shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera. The newly discovered limb ...

Ever since being salvaged by sponge divers in the Greek Mediterranean in 1901, the Antikythera mechanism has captured the imaginations of archaeologists and scientists with penchant for antiquity ...

Pottery from the Antikythera shipwreck's cargo. (Greece's Ministry of Culture and Sports) In 2016, marine archaeologists discovered a 2,100-year-old skeleton at the Antikythera wreck site.

Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...

A famed Roman shipwreck, from the first century B.C., resting off the Greek Island of Antikythera may be two sunken ships. Here, scientist divers explore the wreck site in the strait between Crete ...

The Antikythera Mechanism was not merely a bauble for the elite to educate themselves about the heavens. It was the workhorse of an evolving technology which provided knowledge about the heavens, ...

“Decoding The Antikythera Mechanism: Science and Technology in Ancient Greece,” a conference beginning Thursday’s in Athens, is devoted solely to a 2,000 year old bronze artefact that has ...

Discovered in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism has long been called one of the earliest computers. For years scientists had no idea what it did, ascribing it with almost mystical functionality.

Part of the Antikythera Mechanism, above, an astronomical calculator raised from a shipwreck in 1901. Image credit: MPIWG. When we think about technology, we tend to think about modern society.

Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.